Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.

Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

A lot of this is based in tech people's belief that nothing is truly NP=hard intractable, that everything is both achievable and controllable, and that arguing otherwise is arguing for the existence of a preexisting God, rather than the self evidently correct belief that they can create/become God

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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

nowinpalestine on Instagram: "“Ceasefire”View all 74 comments" “Ceasefire”

Reporting by Palestinian journalists indicates that the pretext for IDF’s attacks today was Israeli Zionist settlers running over unexploded ordinance while they were bulldozing Palestinian homes, not something involving Hamas at all.

Colonialism kills

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"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

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you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

I made a silent puppet film about Godzilla vs. Paul Bunyan.

(thank you to @iamchubbybunny.bsky.social for Japanese translations and @okaywolf.ink for clanky piano!!)

So far, Nate Silver and Matt Yglesias have come out against this piece which means you know with 100% certainty that Ed is correct and you should listen to what he’s saying

REPORT: Biden Officials Admit They Never Pressured Israel for Ceasefire, as Israeli Leaders Boast of Playing Washington

Here’s what the investigation revealed: 🧵⬇️

What is so goddamn frustrating is how journalists do the PR work for AI evangelists by not following up on their platitudes.

They were already doing this for some of their courses last year. The Irish course is completely ruined, the real human voices have been replaced with AI ones which have their pronunciation all over the place, and in many cases make up sounds that don’t exist in any Irish dialect. It’s awful.

I set a new goal @ ko-fi. I have been prioritizing buying our meds and food but it would mean everything to me to see my family again, even if just once before it’s too late. It’s not a necessity but I would be extremely grateful for any help at all 🩷 ko-fi.com/wwxwashere

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064

Mt Fuji says trans rights

Wait what you can’t improve literacy by banning books and making children talk to statistical sentence fragment generators instead of humans?

It's less "fuck you for being attracted to multiple genders" and more "fuck you for thinking any of this is optional".

This is not a sexual marketplace! THIS! IS! PATRIARCHY!

your best work yet 🤌

The Right: don’t prosecute the elite because fuck everyone else lol
The Centre: don’t prosecute the elite because it would undermine faith in the system
The Left, apparently: don’t prosecute the elite because it’ll make them look all rebellious and shit like cool smooth criminals and stuff I guess?

Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters Four Gaza protesters in Germany are set for deportations despite objections from an immigration official that none were convicted of crimes.

Germany tries to deport two Irish, a Pole and an American - over objections from its own officials - because of activities in support of Palestinian victims of Israel. None has been convicted of a crime. One acquitted of a charge over calling police 'fascist'.
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Germany never learns a fucking thing.

3rd times the charm? aye?

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There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

that time i did a lil fingertapped EXORCIST theme

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YouTube comment section circa 2007: “six hundred seventy five thousand six hundred twenty sixth!”

Also in many countries you're not allowed to marry an immigrant unless you have a massive income. The fights against borders, ableism, poverty, racism and queerphobia are all distinct, but in many ways all the same fight.

The Feds Can Film Your Front Porch for 68 Days Without a Warrant, Says Court A federal court says your privacy is diminished due to the proliferation of video cameras throughout society.

I missed this part of the story. Pretty convenient how pervasive surveillance is used to justify ubiquitous surveillance.

“The federal court’s decision says that video cameras have become ‘ubiquitous,’ and have therefore diminished our expectations of privacy.”

“There is no ethical way to use the major AI image generators. All of them are trained on stolen images, and all of them are built for the purpose of deskilling, disempowering and replacing real human artists.”

This sums it up perfectly. It’s not a conversation.

Al Jazeera news snippet: Victims of Gaza City attack say they were ambushed By Hani Mahmoud The more we talk to people about what happened during the attack near Gaza City this morning, the more it becomes clear they feel it was a trap, an ambush. As soon as people approached incoming trucks carrying food aid, they were shot at. There were attack drones in the sky. There was also fire from naval forces and armoured vehicles in the vicinity. All at once, these military forces fired at a group of people who were hungry, traumatised and displaced. People who were just trying to get their hands on whatever they could to feed their families and stay alive.

The number of dead from the attack has now risen to 104 and there are still, unfortunately, injured people left on the road. Paramedics, civil defence crew and volunteers are trying to help get these people to hospitals, but are finding it very difficult to get to the area. We are expecting the number of casualties to increase even more in the coming hours. This is what is left for people in northern Gaza - face starvation or risk one's life trying to get aid.

This morning Israel used food as a trap, ambushing starving people trying to get aid with drones, boats, and armored vehicles - massacring 104 and counting

1994: internet is ephemeral

2004: internet is forever

2014: only internet is forever. Print pubs and owning physical media are for idiots

2024: your favorite shows have been removed for tax breaks and private equity firms bought up the websites you worked for and deleted your entire life's work